[Jewitt, John R.]

The Captive of Nootka or the Adventures of John R. Jewett [sic]

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854. Hardcover. Later edition, 1854. Square 12mo. 259 pp. including wood engravings. Original green publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and patterned in blind. Cloth moderately worn and lightly stained, contemporary children's pencil graffiti in endpapers, mild foxing throughout. A good copy. Issued as the second part of 'Peter Parley's Little Library.' An children's adaptation of an important Indian captivity narrative, chronicling English armorer John R. Jewitt's capture and enslavement by the native Canadian Nootka people of the Pacific Northwest from 1803 to his rescue in 1805. Good. Item #z07206

Price: $54.00